What are you getting for your mothers?!

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Mine is so hopeless at telling me what she'd like.
I like anything you get me.....
Shiny, sparkly things but not expensive...

Gah. Have you had any brainwaves for yours?

Meera Sodha's vegetarian book Fresh India
A bauble for the tree in the shape of an aubergine
William Boyd's new novel
Nice photo of the kids
Bottle of Tia Maria

Not for Christmas but also have a mum with December birthday...I'm thinking flower bouquet subscription

Pyjamas,Dove toiletries,couple of cd's and a dvd that she's mentioned,gin glass and a bottle of gin

Skincare
Handbag
Earrings
Engraved locket from my DD
Byredo candle
Diptyque body wash set

She's getting perfume and a skincare set

DPs mum is getting a Harris's hand cream set and ... I'll get back to you on what else

Coat
Sports t shirt or leggings
Sports socks
Dressing gown
Face moisturiser
Posh shampoo

Things that she likes from past
Spoon rest!
Fancy cracker tin
Cardigan
Coat
Bag for wool
Sports fleece
Fancy tights
Winter Dress

The Crown dvd, which I hope she loves and isnt too critical of

I think also some family photos as she gave a hint she wanted some

Over the years - Sleepwear, gift vouchers, photo calender, heated pad as suffers neck pain, cinema tickets, mum collects fairies so fairy ornaments for the garden, hand embroidered diary.

This year and areopress and some coffee along with a couple of books.

My mum is getting a new dressing gown, some Body Shop stuff that she likes and her favourite chocolates.

I’ve also bought her and my stepdad a bottle of Isle if Harris gin (following a really helpful thread on here).

I bought her a really lovely sleep/eye mask. She mentioned she wanted one a while ago and I knew she’d never buy herself a decent one.

I am making little hampers of local (to me in France) products so will probably do one of those for my parents too.

Membership of the local botanical gardens and a photo calendar (first is as requested, second is expected). Previously I’ve bought her books, a Kindle (sadly not a great hit), a memory bank for her PC.

DPIL...I want to see if we can buy them National Trust membership, but need DH to ask them. We usually spend more on them as we have more disposable cash than they do whereas DM has more than we do. For many years we bought them practical things they couldn’t quite run to...now that my youngest BIL has left home we don’t feel we need to as much but they appreciate it and I know things are still tighter than they are for DM.

I almost always buy my mum clothes, jewellery or perfume. This year it is a sparkly top from Coast.

A keyring engraved with her dad's handwriting. The company does jewellery as well.

Sleep journal. Not sure she’ll like it. Honestly most presents she just leaves lying around, one year we rewrapped her presents from the year before as a joke and she didn’t notice.

But she is always worried about her sleep so if she did use it it might help.

My mum loves a label so I’ve got her a DKNY dressing gown and pyjamas. Also got her a flower subscription but changed it from once a week to once a month.

@worriedmum42 I used Freddie’s flowers, if you want to you can use my code and get your first bunch free!

www.freddiesflowers.com/r/Lucyw54

Daansaaf - have you got a website for that please

Does she like baking? DS1 and DP gave me a stand mixer a couple of years ago. Not a posh Kitchenaid, an Andrew James one, they cost about £79. It is absolutely invaluable for my purposes, mainly cake, pastry etc.

Otherwise perfume she would not buy for herself.

This year she's requested a photobox canvas with pictures of the kids on.

My mum likes a brooch and chunky jewelery so that is always easy enough to buy.

I heard about a book called Cactus yesterday that I think I might get my MIL.

I don’t have my mum now unfortunately, but was in John Lewis yesterday and saw beautiful cashmere jumpers I know she’d have loved -one in coral and one in sky blue-both colours she loved and looked good in

She’s forever asking me to give her hard copies of photos of the kids rather than send them electronically so I’m making her a photo book and putting a couple of pics in nice frames